There only a few significant releases of WUs last year. We need to pounce on it when they do release the work. Keep an eye for it and have your systems ready.The main application running on CAS@home is the TreeThreader which predicts protein structure. After finishing a big campaign in Oct 2015, there have been sporadic TreeThreader jobs running on CAS@home which is around 200 sequences to predict every month. Currently, the TreeThreader application provides a public service FALCON to allow worldwide biologists submitting their protein sequences for structure prediction, and CAS@home is the backend computing platform for this public service. This service has just been open to the public, and it expects more biologists to use it in the near future with a recent publication. Apart from the jobs from FALCON, there will also be another campaign of TreeThreader between Feb and May 2016 to prepare for the CASP event . As usual, CAS@home appreciates all the support from its volunteers!
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Get your CAS work while it lasts!
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#3 Re: CAS
CAS work available. Load up!
#4 Re: CAS
I added about 15k to the cause. They're gone.
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#5 Re: CAS
I got 21k in today. FB shows 400k logged this year and I think that will go up a little more on the next update. Maybe it will pay this year.
#6 Re: CAS
Is there anything special required to run this, or things to look out for? Grabs all cores, uses vm, cpu only etc.
If it'll just run I'll leave just leave my system to look for work and hopefully pick some up here and there.
If it'll just run I'll leave just leave my system to look for work and hopefully pick some up here and there.
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#7 Re: CAS
Nothing special. I do set the project resource share to 9000 so it's always looking for it. That and I use my project updater app to does a project update every 5 minutes on it. The project will only give you so many WUs though.
#8 Re: CAS
Thanks Scole
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#9 Re: CAS
Another big WU release. If your still up, get em! We need to load up now before it hits 2 million and every other team will be focusing on it. Lets get our lead now.
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#10 Re: CAS
AND MORE CAS!
#11 Re: CAS
I've managed to pick some up
#12 Re: CAS
I just moved over. Meisterfart didn't do anything on NFS yesterday and if they do the same today then I have barely enough finished to pass them for 3 points on the late night update. When CAS runs dry I'll switch back over to NFS.
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#13 Re: CAS
Project total over 1,033,984, TSBT has 190k, the next closest team, meisterfart, only 20k. I predict another 1st , though it makes me mad they will reap 18 points with a measly 20k. Maybe we need to encourage UBT and AMD Users into going for 2nd and 3rd?
#14 Re: CAS
I'd go with the keep picking up what we can and keep quiet about it option :hiding:
#15 Re: CAS
Change your team to UBT and I can change my team to AMD Users and the problem is solvedscole250 wrote:Project total over 1,033,984, TSBT has 190k, the next closest team, meisterfart, only 20k. I predict another 1st , though it makes me mad they will reap 18 points with a measly 20k. Maybe we need to encourage UBT and AMD Users into going for 2nd and 3rd?
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That would work, but too soon for that option.
Probably a mistake but I tossed OcUK a bone and mentioned CAS. Either they go for it or they don't. I'm trying put a diplomatic foundation in place. I'm not sure we can hold them off for the the long haul. They have decent size team with some big crunchers. I hate to play for 2nd, but it would be suicide to try to win 1st and get promoted to league 1. I say let them have it. I'm hoping we can agree to not compete on certain projects so we have an easier time holding 2nd. CAS is different right now though. Just a little effort and they can take 2nd from meister, then go back their other project priorities. If they decide to go for it, they have to pull away from something else and we'll go after that.
Probably a mistake but I tossed OcUK a bone and mentioned CAS. Either they go for it or they don't. I'm trying put a diplomatic foundation in place. I'm not sure we can hold them off for the the long haul. They have decent size team with some big crunchers. I hate to play for 2nd, but it would be suicide to try to win 1st and get promoted to league 1. I say let them have it. I'm hoping we can agree to not compete on certain projects so we have an easier time holding 2nd. CAS is different right now though. Just a little effort and they can take 2nd from meister, then go back their other project priorities. If they decide to go for it, they have to pull away from something else and we'll go after that.
#17 Re: CAS
I agree with your assessment. I don't really think you can take the top spot from them on the long run. Over a very short period it might be possible but I think they have more firepower available. They did a really good job of chewing into the 1.2M lead we had on NFS. Of course while they were doing that we jumped them by 1.1M on dDM. They have 4.5M on NumberFields, 4.5M Climate, 3M SAT, 7M Enigma ..... so they have put up some really strong numbers in 2 months. We could take 1 or 2 projects from them and they would have a hard time answering it, but while we did that they would just continue to move away on everything else.
So I think the goal is the make sure that Meisterfart is covered and at every chance take points from them.
So I think the goal is the make sure that Meisterfart is covered and at every chance take points from them.
#18 Re: CAS
Even if by some miracle we did get first place in the entire league, we would not be promoted as long as we do not have the required RAC in November to be in league one. Easy enough to avoid as we are nowhere close, would need to really hit collatz for all we can or similar high paying project on the GPU's as BU RAC is not counted.
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#19 Re: CAS
OcUK has some fanatics. BaBa is building a quad E7-4890 cruncher. That's 120 threads...
http://s967.photobucket.com/user/oojit/ ... 6.jpg.html
And his other systems...
http://universeathome.pl/universe/hosts ... erid=12705
http://s967.photobucket.com/user/oojit/ ... 6.jpg.html
And his other systems...
http://universeathome.pl/universe/hosts ... erid=12705
#20 Re: CAS
WOW! Boy that would be fun to play with!
I wonder if he knows he could get a 30% boost in performance using Linux on Universe.
I wonder if he knows he could get a 30% boost in performance using Linux on Universe.
#21 Re: CAS
Those are some nice toys. Wonder what his power bill is ?
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#22 Re: CAS
That's pretty much my thoughts too.Alez wrote:Those are some nice toys. Wonder what his power bill is ?
Buying the toys isn't too bad its the rubbing costs that hurt.
#23 Re: CAS
Yes, looks like a lot of my toys will now be based on Android or the very low powered boards available from AMD.
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#24 Re: CAS
CAS has work!
#25 Re: CAS
How long are the units on CAS?
I've got one thats been runnig for 24 hours and says its still got anouther 3 days left, does that sound okay?
I've got one thats been runnig for 24 hours and says its still got anouther 3 days left, does that sound okay?
#26 Re: CAS
If you got one of these "Tsinghua Nano Tech" then yes they take a very long time. The server is saying the average is 346 hours. Those are fairly hard to come by and great for WuProp hours.
The other ones only take about an hour.
The other ones only take about an hour.
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#27 Re: CAS
I have over 1000 WUProp hours on Tsinghua Nano Tech Research which have netted a mere 1,829.50 credits.
Status________________________Run Sec_____Credit
Completed and validated__________206,149.56__1,829.50
Completed, validation inconclusive___805,666.99__pending
Completed, validation inconclusive__1,658,292.00__pending
Completed, validation inconclusive___389,733.10__pending
Error while computing____________182,594.52__---
Error while computing____________209,708.81__---
Error while computing____________214,661.98__---
Error while computing____________241,713.28__---
Status________________________Run Sec_____Credit
Completed and validated__________206,149.56__1,829.50
Completed, validation inconclusive___805,666.99__pending
Completed, validation inconclusive__1,658,292.00__pending
Completed, validation inconclusive___389,733.10__pending
Error while computing____________182,594.52__---
Error while computing____________209,708.81__---
Error while computing____________214,661.98__---
Error while computing____________241,713.28__---
#28 Re: CAS
Thanks Bryan and Scole. It is indeed one of the Tsinghua Nano Tech Research units, i'll let it run and see how it goes.
I just didn't want to waste time if it was a dodgy one that wasn't going to do anything.
I just didn't want to waste time if it was a dodgy one that wasn't going to do anything.
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#29 Re: CAS
Big release of CAS work. Get it while it lasts, before meister gets it.
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#30 Re: CAS
And CAS appears to pay much better on Win64
EDIT: It runs better on Win64 on Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge CPUs but better on linux on the Nehalem CPUs.
EDIT: And they're all gone! Maybe a few resends going out though.
EDIT: But they keep coming...
EDIT: It runs better on Win64 on Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge CPUs but better on linux on the Nehalem CPUs.
EDIT: And they're all gone! Maybe a few resends going out though.
EDIT: But they keep coming...
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#31 Re: CAS
Just saw this message on a system that won't download any more CAS WUs...
18136 CAS@home 9/15/2016 9:56:09 AM This computer has finished a daily quota of 20 tasks
I have other systems that are similar but don't seem to have the same issue. Odd
18136 CAS@home 9/15/2016 9:56:09 AM This computer has finished a daily quota of 20 tasks
I have other systems that are similar but don't seem to have the same issue. Odd
#32 Re: CAS
I saw that on a machine yesterday.
The GREAT news is they are out of WU ... there are 27000 WU waiting for validation so the server is somewhat overwhelmed at this point.
The GREAT news is they are out of WU ... there are 27000 WU waiting for validation so the server is somewhat overwhelmed at this point.
#33 Re: CAS
I have units to upload but server is unreachable. Think they are indeed overloaded.
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#34 Re: CAS
Check out how many WUs you have in the Validation Pending queue. I had over 4000 earlier. Still have over 2800 but they're starting to pay.
#35 Re: CAS
I have 2700 pending ... maybe they learned their lesson and will not issue new batches until they finish with the backend stuff. I've run all the CAS I want to run for a while.
#36 Re: CAS
Yip, I've a few.
From the news.
Hot off the press at SAT@home
Published on 16th September 2016 9:27:00
No new tasks temporarily
Work generetor was temporarily stopped. We are going to move the project to a new sever approximately in November, so we need all tasks to be processed. Read more at: http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/all_news.php#122
Guess it will depend on when in November new tasks appear. Might be before FB finishes in which case we might have to fight this yet.
From the news.
Hot off the press at SAT@home
Published on 16th September 2016 9:27:00
No new tasks temporarily
Work generetor was temporarily stopped. We are going to move the project to a new sever approximately in November, so we need all tasks to be processed. Read more at: http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/all_news.php#122
Guess it will depend on when in November new tasks appear. Might be before FB finishes in which case we might have to fight this yet.
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#37 Re: CAS
I wish that was CAS and not SAT :)
#38 Re: CAS
My bad .... nice thought though, we can but hope
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#39 Re: CAS
Wishful thinking ... I'm hoping CAS goes dormant for the next 2 1/2 months. It sure would make things easier.